Bug#697130: bsnes: Famicom Controller port 2 does not work

[sukaeto]

Package: bsnes
Version: 0.088-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

2 player famicom games are unplayable in BSNES on Wheezy because no input
is registered on the second controller port.  Player 1 input works just fine.

Repro steps:

1) Configure Input mappings for Famicom Controller ports 1 and 2
2) Load a 2 player NES game.
3) Ensure that both Controller Port 1 and Conroller Port 2 are set to 'gamepad'
   under Famicom menu

Expected result:

In 2 player games, both player 1 and player 2 are controllable as per the
configuration in step 1.

Actual result:

Player 1 controller works as expected, but player 2 input is completely
ignored.

Extra information:

I tried this on 2 different systems running Wheezy.  On the first one, I tried
a combination of keyboard and gamepad (Logitech F310, FWIW) mappings for both
controllers to no avail.  On this (the second) system, I only tested with
the keyboard.  Also FWIW, the games I tested with were The Legend of Zelda
(saving is impossible) and Super Mario Bros. (on the SMB/Duckhunt ROM).

I haven't tried this with the latest (or any) upstream release, so I can't tell
you whether or not this is Debian specific.  However, it would appear (nothing
relevant turned up in a Google search, checked the outstanding issues on both
BSNES & Higan project sites) that if this is an upstream issue then Byuu is
unaware of it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bsnes depends on:
ii  libao4                    1.1.0-2
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-37
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.5-3
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libopenal1                1:1.14-4
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpulse0                 2.0-6
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.15-5
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-4
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.7-1

bsnes recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsnes suggests:
pn  laevateinn  <none>

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